CHANDIGARH, Punjab—The apex Sikh body Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhik Committee has strongly condemned the Uttar Pradesh government’s bid of displacing Sikh farmers by snatching their hard-earned arable land that they have been cultivating since the last 70 years.
 “All these Sikh families had directly shifted to these villages of Uttar Pradesh during the 1947’s Indo-Pak partition and converted these desolate forests to arable land while enduring hardships. In 1980, all these Sikh farmers were given proprietorship rights, but now the saffron Uttar Pradesh government has suddenly launched a campaign to displace these Sikh farmers,” said Longowal while adding that UP government was oppressing Sikhs due to which they are feeling alienated.
 Longowal has appealed the Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath to stop these excesses on Sikhs. He has demanded that all the cases registered against Sikhs of Uttar Pradesh should be dropped immediately.
“An investigation committee comprising of SGPC’s junior vice president Gurbakhsh Singh Khalsa, SGPC’s executive member Bhupinder Singh Asandh and SGPC member Gurcharan Singh Grewal has been constituted to take stock of the situation by paying visit there,” he informed while adding that Sukhdev Singh Bhoora Kohna will act as a coordinator of this committee.
UP government in action to snatch hard-earned land from more than 30,000 Sikh farmers